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You should read Swedish poet Gustaf Fröding! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustaf_Fr%C3%B6ding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustaf_Fr%C3%B6ding He is conside
by fetbaffe 9y ago
You should read Swedish poet Gustaf Fröding!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustaf_Fr%C3%B6ding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustaf_Fr%C3%B6ding
He is considered by some of the greatest poets of all time in Sweden. He experimented a lot with his language in the poems he wrote, often with dialects and local expressions.
"Coincidentally" he came from a province called Värmland. Värmland neighbors with Norway to the west. Dialect of Värmland (värmländska) has a close relationship with Norwegian.
Swedes find that people from Värmland speaks with happy upbeat at the end of the sentence (intonation), just like how Swedes hear Norwegians.
Many of the greatest writers & poets in Sweden originate from Värmland.
Anyway, Fröding has a poem called "Dumt fôlk" (Dumb people)
https://sv.wikisource.org/wiki/Dumt_f%C3%B4lk https://sv.wikisource.org/wiki/Dumt_f%C3%B4lk
He is walking about a Sunday morning and meets an other man that asks for directions to the vicarage, and one part of the direction uses funny dialect twist, the man will arrive to a stream where "Å i åa ä e ö" - and in the stream there is an island. The man doesn't understand a word of it and leaves.
woman reading the poem
https://youtu.be/UP_mwiOY7C8 https://youtu.be/UP_mwiOY7C8